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Rhiannon Jakopak
rjakopak@gmail.com | Website: rjakopak.github.io
Education
2021 Master of Science, Zoology and Physiology and Environment and Natural
Resources
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Monteith
University of Wyoming (UW), Laramie, WY – GPA: 4.0/4.0
2016 Bachelor of Science, Wildlife and Fisheries Biology and Management
Bachelor of Arts, Religious Studies
UW, Laramie, Wyoming – GPA: 3.7/4.0
Research Experience
Outreach Coordinator and Research Scientist
Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources – UW | 3/2021 – Pres.
Graduate Student
Department of Zoology and Physiology, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit,
Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources – UW | 8/2017 – Pres.
Title: Evaluating the ontogeny of migration and improving outreach efforts
Small Mammal Trapping Project Manager
Mpala Research Centre | 5/2016 – 11/2016
Title: Are elephant shrews more like elephants, or shrews? Quantifying life-history and
demographics of Elephantulus rufescens
Title: Abundance-occupancy relationships in small mammals: testing the core-satellite species
hypothesis
Undergraduate Remote Sensing Intern
WyomingView – UW | 1/2016 – 5/2016
Title: Evaluating the spectral separability of crop classes in multitemporal Landsat imagery
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Wyoming Scholars Research Program – UW | 10/2015 – 6/2016
Title: Assessing a critical assumption and providing context to remotely sensed data for
ecological studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Wyoming EPSCoR – UW | 7/2015 – 5/2016
Title: Organizing the pantry: cache management improves quality of overwinter food stores in a
montane mammal
Undergraduate Research Intern
McNair Scholar Program – UW | 4/2012 – 9/2012
Title: Rebranding Israel: War, Tourism, and Sex
Updated April 2021 Jakopak 1Professional Experience
Legislative Intern
Wyoming Outdoor Council | 1/2019
Writing Center Graduate Assistant
UW Writing Center – UW | 8/2017 – 5/2018
Ground Squirrel Trapping Technician
Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit – University of Idaho | 4/2017 – 8/2017
Center Supervisor
Blue Bonnet Swamp Nature Center – East Baton Rouge Parish Parks and Recreation, Baton Rouge,
LA | 11/2016 – 2/2017
Field Technician
Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit – UW | 5/2015 – 7/2015
Crew Member
Wyoming Conservation Corps – UW | 5/2014 – 8/2014
Applied Sciences Writing Intern
Seney National Wildlife Refuge and Lake States Fire Science Consortium | 1/2014 – 3/2014
Ecology Team Leader
Upward Bound Math Science Program – UW | 5/2013 – 7/2013
Safe Zone Program Coordinator
Campus Activities Center – UW | 1/2013 – 5/2014
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant: Mammalogy, UW | 2020
Teaching Assistant: Principles of Fish and Wildlife Management, UW | 2019, 2020
Graduate Writing Tutor, UW Writing Center | 2017-2018
Teaching Assistant: Field Methods in Mammalogy, Mpala Research Centre | 2016
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Principles of Fish and Wildlife Management and Mammalogy,
UW | 2015-2016
Supplemental Instructor: History of Islam, African Spirits in the New World, UW | 2013
Peer-Reviewed Publications
1. Aikens, E. O., S. P. H. Dwinnell, T. N. LaSharr, R. P. Jakopak, G. L. Fralick, J. Randall, R.
Kaiser, M. Thonhoff, M. J. Kauffman, and K. L. Monteith. 2021. Migration distance and
maternal resource allocation determine timing of birth in a large herbivore. Ecology, in press.
2. Ortega, A. C., S. P. Dwinnell, T. N. LaSharr, R. P. Jakopak, K. Denryter, K. S. Huggler, M. M.
Hayes, E. O. Aikens, T. L. Verzuh, A. B. May, M. J. Kauffman, and K. L. Monteith. 2020.
Updated April 2021 Jakopak 2Effectiveness of partial sedation to reduce stress in captured mule deer. Journal of Wildlife
Management 84:1445-1456.
3. Monteith, K. L., K. L. Monteith, J. A. Jenks, and R. Jakopak. 2020. One in the hand worth two
in the bush? Reproductive effort of young males is not affected by the presence of adult males.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:274.
4. Jakopak, R., T. N. LaSharr, S. P. H. Dwinnell, G. L. Fralick, and K. L. Monteith. 2019. Rapid
acquisition of memory in a complex landscape by a mule deer. Ecology 100:e02854.
5. Goheen, J. R., D. J. Augustine, K. E. Veblen, D. M. Kimuyu, T. M. Palmer, L. M. Porensky, R.
M. Pringle, C. Riginos, A. T. Ford, A. A. Hassan, R. Jakopak, T. R. Kartzinel, S. Kurukura, A.
M. Louthan, W. O. Odadi, T. O. Otieno, A. M. Wambua, H. S. Young, and T. P. Young. 2018.
Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE,
UHURU, and GLADE experiments. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1429(1): 31-49.
6. Jakopak, R., L. E. Hall and A. D. Chalfoun. 2017. Organizing the pantry: cache management
improves the quality of overwinter food stores in a montane mammal. Journal of Mammalogy 98(6):
1674–1681.
Other Academic Publications
1. Jakopak, R. 2020. Review of Talking Maps. Cartographic Perspectives 96.
2. Jakopak, R. and T. N. LaSharr. 2019. Hunting and mountain sheep: do current harvest
practices affect horn growth? Research brief for the Haub School of Environment and Natural
Resources.
3. Jakopak, R. 2019. Wildlife license plates—where are we now? Legislative update for The
Wildlife Society.
4. Jakopak, R., K. L. Monteith, and B. G. Merkle. 2019. Writing science: improving understanding
and communication skills with the “unessay”. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.
*Received recognition as a top downloaded paper in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of
America 2018-2019.
5. Jakopak, R. 2018. When pop culture and ecology jive. Engage Laramie Science blog post.
6. Jakopak, R. and J. Polasik. 2014. Fire and Black-Backed Woodpeckers in Upper Michigan.
Seney National Wildlife Refuge. Research brief.
7. Jakopak, R. 2014. The 1976 (Walsh Ditch) Fire & Wildlife. Seney National Wildlife Refuge.
Research brief.
Popular Media
1. Jakopak, R. 2021. Bar room banter: jackalopes are real? MeatEater, online publication.
https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/wildlife-management/bar-room-banter-
jackalopes-are-real
2. Jakopak, R. 2020. The Rose Petal Hypothesis: Why deer hunting spots go dry. MeatEater,
online publication. https://www.themeateater.com/hunt/big-game/the-rose-petal-hypothesis-
why-deer-hunting-spots-go-dry
3. Jakopak, R. 2020. How often do whitetail and mule deer hybridize? MeatEater, online
publication. https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/wildlife-management/how-often-do-
whitetail-and-mule-deer-hybridize
Updated April 2021 Jakopak 34. Jakopak, R., T. LaSharr, and B. Wise. 2018. Bill improves safety on Wyo. roads for people and
wildlife. Cheyenne Tribune Eagle Letter to the Editor.
5. Beagle, E., J. Bennet Ponsford, R. Jakopak, G. Nikolov, and A. Parker. 2017. Put Wyoming
first: Leave graduate tuition untaxed. Casper Star Tribune Letter to the Editor.
6. Jakopak, R. 2016. It’s the little things: What we can learn from small mammals. Mpala Research
Centre Memos.
Research Presentations
* Indicates presented.
1. Jakopak, R.,* T. N. LaSharr, S. P. H. Dwinnell, G. L. Fralick, and K. L. Monteith. 2019. Not all
who wander are lost: navigation and memory in mule deer. Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife
Society. Oral presentation.
2. Fattebert, J., J. Merkle, H. Sawyer, H. Copeland, T. Nunez, G. Anderson, G. Fralick, C.
Schroeder, D. Olson, K. Hersey, A. Ortega, R. Jakopak, T. LaSharr, S. Dwinnell, K. Monteith,
& M. Kauffman. 2019. Evaluating the impact of towns on mule deer migration corridors. The
Wildlife Society. Oral presentation.
3. Jakopak, R.,* T. N. LaSharr, S. P. Dwinnell, G. L. Fralick, and K. L. Monteith. 2019. The
mystery of movement & memory in mule deer. American Society of Mammalogists. Oral
presentation.
4. Jakopak, R.* 2019. Movement, memory, and the mystery of migration in mule deer. Graduate
Student Network Community Outreach. Lightning talk.
5. Jakopak, R.* 2019. Movement, memory, and the mystery of migration in mule deer. Wyoming
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Cooperator Meeting. Lightning talk.
6. Jakopak, R.* 2018. Are you picking up what I’m putting down? Evaluating the ontogeny of
migration and improving outreach efforts. Zoology and Physiology Departmental Brown Bag.
Oral presentation.
7. Jakopak, R.* 2018. Are you picking up what I’m putting down? Evaluating the ontogeny of
migration and improving outreach efforts. Presentation to the Student Chapter of The Wildlife
Society at UW. Invited oral presentation.
8. Jakopak, R., and K. Monteith. 2018. Does the petal fall from the rose? Revealing the ontogeny
and consequences of ungulate migration. International Deer Biology Congress. Poster
presentation.
9. Jakopak, R., * E. Aikens, K. Monteith. 2018. Quantifying forage characteristics for ungulates
with remotely sensed data. American Society of Mammalogists. Oral presentation.
10. Jakopak, R.,* and K. Monteith. 2018. Does the petal fall from the rose? Revealing the
ontogeny and consequences of ungulate migration. American Society of Mammalogists. Poster
presentation.
11. Malignati, L., D. M. Boro, M. Dyck, R. Jakopak, T. O. Otieno, A. M. Wambua, T. M. Palmer,
R. M. Pringle, and J. R. Goheen. 2018. The Ungulate Herbivory Under Rainfall Uncertainty
(UHURU) Experiment, Laikipia Kenya. Kenyan National Science Week. Poster presentation.
12. Jakopak, R.* 2018. Does the petal fall from the rose? Revealing the ontogeny and
consequences of ungulate migration. Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Annual Cooperator Meeting. Ignite talk.
13. Jakopak, R.,* M. Drollette, and K. Monteith. 2018. Writing Center Approach to Student
Success in the Science Classroom. Colorado Wyoming Writing Tutors Conference. Panel
discussion.
Updated April 2021 Jakopak 414. Jakopak, R.,* M. Drollette, and K. Monteith. 2018. The benefits of collaboration between
science and writing centers. Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association. Oral presentation.
15. Jakopak, R.,* and K. Monteith. 2017. Does the petal fall from the rose? Revealing the
ontogeny and consequences of ungulate migration. Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
Poster presentation. Awarded Best Student Poster Presentation.
16. Jakopak, R.,* A. M. Wambua, and J. R. Goheen. 2017. Are elephant shrews more like
elephants, or shrews? Quantifying life-history and demographics of Elephantulus rufescens.
American Society of Mammalogists. Poster presentation.
17. J. R. Goheen, D. E. Boro, R. Jakopak, T. R. Kartzinel, S. D. Newsome, and A. M. Wambua.
2017. Climate forcing, inter-individual variation, and specialization in an African small-mammal
community. American Society of Mammalogists. Oral presentation.
18. Jakopak, R.,* L. E. Hall and A. D. Chalfoun. 2016. Understanding the architecture of food
caches in a montane mammal. University of Wyoming Undergraduate Research Day. Oral
presentation.
19. Jakopak, R.,* E. O. Aikens and K. L. Monteith. 2016. Assessing a critical assumption and
providing context to remotely sensed data for ecological studies. University of Wyoming
Undergraduate Research Day. Oral presentation.
20. Jakopak, R.* and R. Sivanpillai. 2016. Evaluating the spectral separability of crop classes in
multi-temporal Landsat imagery. University of Wyoming Undergraduate Research Day. Oral
presentation.
21. Jakopak, R.,* L. E. Hall and A. D. Chalfoun. 2016. Organizing the pantry: Pikas do it, too!
Front Range Student Ecology Symposium. Poster presentation.
22. Jakopak, R.,* L. E. Hall and A. D. Chalfoun. 2015. Understanding the architecture of food
caches in a montane mammal. Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society and Wyoming
Landscape Conservation Initiative Joint Conference. Poster presentation.
Professional Memberships
American Society of Mammalogists
Committee member: Human Diversity Committee (2018-Pres.)
University of Wyoming Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society (inactive)
Treasurer (2015)
Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society
Committee member: Legislative Committee (Member: 2017-Pres., Chair: 2019-Pres.)
Conservation Affairs Network Liaison
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